Improvement in eyeglasses



1 d NITEn S ATES PATENT OEEIoE.

, JAMES T. L. ANDERSON, OF BROOKLYN, E. 1)., NEW YORK.

- IMPROVEMENT IN EYEGLASSES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 168,122,. dated September 28, 1875 application filed i August 28, 1875. v v

1 To all whom it may concern: and upon the lower ends of which are formed l; Be it known that I, JAMES T. L. ANDERSON, hubs c, to receive and fit upon studs a, formed of Brooklyn, E. D., Kings county, State of upon or attached to the lower parts of the in- ,5 New York, have invented a new and useful ner ends of the frames A, where they are se- {1 Improvement in Eyeglasses, of which the folcured in place by screws D, screwed into the glowing is a specificationz outer ends of the said studs a. The nose- Figure l is a plan view of a pair of eyerests 0 may be adjusted at such an angle with glasses to which my improvement has been the plane of the lens-frames as the form of I applied. Fig. 2 is an edge view of the inner the wearers nose may require, so that the 1 end of one of the lens-frames, showing the rests 0 may be parallel with the bridge of the inclination of the nose-rest, the bridge-spring nose, and may fit into the angle between the i being shown in section through the line as :r, nose and brow, instead of resting against the r Fig. 1; and Fig. 3 is a detail view of the nosesides of the nose transversely, in the manner l rest and a part of thelens-frame enlarged, and of ordinary eyeglasses.

l i l i t partly in section to show the construction. Having thus described my invention,I claim Similar letters of reference indicate correas new and desire to secure by Letters Pat- :sponding parts. ent- The invention will first be fully described in A pair of spring-connected eyeglasses, pro- {connection with drawing, and then pointed out vided with clamps or nose-rests O O, movable {in the claim. on studs a out of the plane of the glasses, as

i A are the lens-frames, upon the upper parts and for the purpose specified. I

l v of the inner ends of which are formed projec- JAMES T. L. ANDERSON.

tions, to which are secured the ends of the Witnesses:

1. bridge or connecting spring B. O are the JAMES T. GRAHAM,

if nose-rests, the upper ends of which are free, ALEX. F. ROBERTS. 

